Hi folks! Happy Lunar New Year! Time flies.. and another year has gone by. Wishing all my readers, good health, happiness, and many fragrant experiences! Growing a little radish at my tea and incense table, in chinese, radish is ... [Read More...]
A super long over due article! But mainly because I was waiting for survey results/replies from people. Many months ago, I held a free tea sample give away, a sample set that consists of 4 teas, 5 grams each, sent out at no cost to the recipients, ... [Read More...]
There are strict local laws here on the regulation of societies and associations, and for any organizations/gathering of more than ten members, it is necessary to have the society formally registered with the government! Here's just an example on ... [Read More...]
Do you know that there are just countless people in the world, trying to make a fortune from all sorts of materials they try to find from the wild? Take for example, ambergris, it is quite a dark trade, the amount of rivalry between scavengers ... [Read More...]
There are two obvious lines of soil agarwood on the market, one from vietnam, and the other from Indonesia. The Vietnamese line consists of 3 types of soil agarwoods, yellow, red and black soil. In Indonesia, some call it yellow soil, but it is ... [Read More...]
Oops, another hiatus in writing. Had been caught up in much work and was also away on a trip to Taiwan. As I should be re-starting to warm myself up by writing more posts.. I thought I would start with a simple, but important subject, installing ... [Read More...]
I had received some requests on how to actually go about making incense sticks, and there were comments on my earlier post that I had not show how the incense dough was made prior to extrusion, and how I managed to get such straight sticks and scale ... [Read More...]
oops! long overdue articles as usual. beeen reallly really busy studying and researching on tea pots and making incense sticks but i've not forgotten about writing. Sometimes, when people handle agarwood, they are seen pouring over the ... [Read More...]
